Amy Hart has revealed she fell victim to a nightmare phone scamming hoax which wiped £5,000 from her bank account in just minutes.

The former Love Island star, 31, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Thursday alongside cyber security expert Jake Moore and hosts Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley to recall what happened.

She explained that she was sitting in the garden when she received a phone call she chose not to answer and instead googled it to see who it was.

After it came up as her bank’s fraud line and they called her back a second time, she ᴀssumed it was safe to answer.

The reality star explained: ‘They must time it because it was literally within the time I went onto the search engine and typed it in, they phoned me back.

Amy Hart has revealed she fell victim to a nightmare phone scamming hoax which wiped £5,000 from her bank account in just minutes

The former Love Island star, 31, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Thursday alongside cyber security expert Jake Moore

‘I answered it but it was actually number spoofing so a scammer had managed to spoof the number so it is the right number but it’s a different line.’

She continued: ‘They knew lots of details about me and that’s the thing with scammers they always pose as very reputable companies. They said there had been fraudulent activity on my account.

‘I went onto my internet banking and checked and said there’s not anything on there and they said no it’s because we’ve stopped it.’

They used ‘pressure tactics’ and prompted her to type a text message reading ‘YES’ by reading out her recent transactions, one of which she had actually made. 

Amy explained that her husband Sam Rason decided to call up the bank to see if they were in fact on the phone to Amy, to which they confirmed they were not.

The former Islander checked her bank account only to realise she had lost £5,000 within minutes.

Although she got her money back in the end, Amy is now warning others about the tactics scammers are using.

The candid interview came as part of O2’s newest campaign to fight back against scammers, which includes an on-call AI granny called Daisy, who was created to waste fraudster’s time.

Amy explained that her husband Sam Rason decided to call up the bank to see if they were in fact on the phone to Amy, to which they confirmed they were not

The former Islander checked her bank account only to realise she had lost £5,000 within minutes

The tool combines various AI models which work together to first listen to the caller and transcribe their voice into text. 

Appropriate responses are then generated through a custom large language model complete with a character ‘personality’ layer, and then fed back through a custom AI text-to-speech model to generate a voice answer. 

This takes place in real time, allowing the tool to hold a human-like conversation with a caller. 

The AI creation tells stories of her family, her love of knitting and hands over fake bank details, to keep them busy so they don’t spend time scamming the public.

Amy added: ‘It’s scary to see the lengths scammers go to steal everything from pᴀsswords to bank details regardless of who they’re speaking to. 

‘Whether your young or old, anyone can be a victim of a scam that’s why we can never be too careful when it comes to unexpected calls or texts.

‘If you have even the tiniest doubt about who you’re speaking to, the best thing to do is to hang up the phone and call back on a trusted number.’

It’s been a busy few months for Amy, whose wedding dress was finally revealed in October as best pal Amber Gill, 27, shared a first glimpse behind the scenes of the ‘mob wife’ wedding,

Although she got her money back in the end, Amy is now warning others about the tactics scammers are using

Amy sH๏τ to fame on the fifth season of Love Island in 2019 (pictured), where she was coupled up with Curtis Pritchard

Amber shared stunning snaps of Amy in her jaw-dropping wedding dress as she tied the knot to Sam Rason in a pH๏τo dump shared to Instagram.

Fellow former Lover Islander Amy looked incredible in her ‘mob wife, dramatic’ gown as she tied the knot with Sam in an outdoor ceremony at the Casa de la Era farm near Malaga in September.

Amy, who has not shared much of her special day while on her honeymoon, appeared to be in wedded bliss as she beamed a huge smile in her V-neck gown.

Her lace, long-sleeved garment turned heads at the ceremony as the dramatic train and veil trailing behind Amy as she walked down the aisle.

Meanwhile Amber looked incredible in a Greek-inspired wrap dress as she shared an album of wedding pH๏τos on Instagram.

She put on a leggy display for the joyous occasion as her Retrofete Aglaia Dress, worth around £500, featured a daringly high split.

Amy breath-taking wedding dress turned heads at the ceremony as the dramatic train and veil trailed behind Amy as she walked down the aisle.

But despite the images looking perfectly picturesque, Amy revealed she had to navigate some tricky steps in her floor-length dress and high heels, meaning that when she was escorted to the altar by her dad, Ian, they both nearly tumbled down.

Last month, Amy’s wedding dress was finally revealed as best pal Amber, 27, shared a first glimpse behind the scenes of the ‘mob wife’ wedding (pictured with Sam Rason)

Amber shared stunning snaps of Amy in her jaw-dropping wedding dress as she tied the knot to Sam Rason in a pH๏τo dump shared to Instagram

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She told OK! magazine: ‘I didn’t get emotional walking down the aisle because although I knew I’d have to walk down the amphitheater steps, I realised that in that dress and in heels, it wouldn’t be easy.

‘They’re not even, and I started laughing at one point because there was one really mᴀssive one and my dad said to me, ‘Oh, we both nearly went there’, so I was really concentrating on where I was walking!’

Amy made it down the aisle to the sounds of ‘You’re Already There’ by Alison Jiear and was able to exchange vows with Sam without tripping.

She said ‘I do’ in front of her 137 closest friends and family and also had seven bridesmaids and Sam had six groomsmen for the four day extravaganza.

Discussing her stunning gown, Amy admitted it took her forever to find the perfect dress because she has worn a number of glamorous gowns at pageants and red carpets.

She said: ‘In the cubicle I wasn’t sure. But when I walked out and saw it in the mirror, and then they put the veil on, I knew straight away it was the dress for me. It looked very Spanish, very ‘Mob Wives’, very dramatic and the craftsmanship was just incredible. It was perfect for me.’

Amy looked sensational in her bridal gown, which boasted a plunging neckline, pretty lace sleeves, and a full skirt.

The couple – parents to 18-month old son Stanley – are understood to be spending their honeymoon in Las Vegas, but a date for the trip is yet to be confirmed.

She said ‘I do’ in front of her 137 closest friends and family and also had seven bridesmaids and Sam had six groomsmen for the four day extravaganza

Amy, who sH๏τ to fame on Love Island in 2019, welcomed Stanley, her only child with Sam, in March 2023.

Six months later, she was stunned when her significant other got down on one knee while she was taking part in a shoot aboard the Excellence-class cruise ship Arvia for her P&O cruises podcast.

Amy was invited into the theatre to watch the rehearsals when Sam surprised her by appearing on stage and getting down on one knee and proposing.

Quoting a lyric from I’ll Be Here – a number from obscure 9/11 musical Ordinary Days – avid musical theatre fan Amy announced her engagement with Instagram followers.

She wrote: ‘And he said…hey, whatcha doin’ the rest of your life? Well and truly the biggest surprise ever We are so happy (literally thought I was watching show rehearsals hence why I have no shoes on).’

In a further update, the happy couple could be seen enjoying glᴀsses of champagne where occasional Loose Women star Amy admitted that she is normally aware of everything that goes on but everything had been set up so that she had no clue.

She said: ‘So yeah, fiance! There was no floors being polished, It was so that I didn’t run into Sam when he got on the ship, there was no new trailers being set.’